The Washington critic., 1887-03-03
WASHINGTON CRITIC
WASHINGTON, MARCH 8, 1857.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.


iience as q journalist, says the Phila'
delphia Times. During Grants first
term ingalls, was lawyer in Atchison.
lie had an Office In back room over
drug store, and In the summer wore
linen duster with belt that made his
thin form look even thinner. When
John A. Martin, the present Governor
ofKansas, then postmaster at Atchison,
went away on political journeys, In.
gals edited his paper, the Champion.
Ingalls, was at that time the prominent
Republican lawyer of the State. and
George w. Click, who was afterward
the first Democratic Governor of Kan
sas, was the Democratic lawyer of the
Commonwealth. On one occasion,
when ingalls, was editing Martins
paper, the City Council voted an appro.
priation to entertain Gen. Grant. The
man who was editing the opposition
paper In the absence of the proprle-
tor opposed the action of the CouLcil.
ingalls, couldn't stand that. He wrote
and published savage editorial In
which he said that the opposition paper
was being edited by Missouri rebel
who had come to tell loyal Kansas what
to do, and so stirred the passions of the
Atchinson people that peace was not
restored until after the publisher of the
Democratic paper came home and dis.
charged his obnoxious editor. That
was one of ingalls, first political vic
tories In the State aud 1t gave him no
little standing among the soldier Gle.
ment which still follows his lead to q
great extent.
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The latest distinguished lady who
thinks of becoming an actress, says
"Bystandcr" in the Philadelphia Noes,
is Ethel Chase, the daughter of the &C.
centric Governor Sprague of Rhode
Island, and of his beautiful wife, Kate
Chase the celebrated daughter of Sal
mon p. Chase, who died Chief Justice
of the United States Supreme Court.
Miss Ethel 1t is reported, has all of her
mothers beauty and much of her proud
spirit. Her mothers means are not at
all as ample as they were few years
ago, and the young lady thinks the
stage the shortest and surest way to
fortune for woman. IL she has talent
for 1t, II surely would be in her case.
Her friends are bitterly opposed to the
idea of her becoming public per.
former, but If she Is genuinely stage
struck their opposition will only make
her more decided and determined In her
resolution.
AHs
Every visitor to the Capital, says the
correspondent of the Nashville imeri.
can, is shown the Old Curiosity Shop,
which is another name for the historic
hostelry of John Hancock, situated on
Pennsylvania avenue, near Thirteenth
street. Around this building, whose
modest proportions are in striking con.
trast with the stately structures sur.
rounding It, cling traditions interviewer
with the greatest of Americans. The
walls are lined with relies, many of
which are framed and all worn, some
In the last stages of decay. Letters
written by Washington, Jefferson,
Madison and Monroe, autographs of
Revolutionary heroes, and mementoes
of that war, articles of apparel worn
household words even now, are
ranged along the sides of the inner
apartments in old-fashioned cases
or dingy retreats. The veteran
who established the hostelry
was q patriot of the old
school who conceived the idea of
collecting these relics of the great men
of his day, and to his widow aud sons
1,a - nj hi
looms. lie stipulated that the building
must remain as he left 1t, and his de.
sccndants have righteously obeyed his
behest. They have continued the
work of their ancestor, and to day the
shop contains mementoes Of nearly
every prominent national character.
Antiquarians have frequently sought to
buy certain Of them, and modest for.
tunes have been offered for such treas.
ures as the slippers which Washington
wore at Mt. Vernon, or a hat which
protected some half starved lievolu.
tionary soldier at Valley Forge, but all
offers are refused. The curiOsities
will be handed down from generation
10 generation of IIancocks, TO whom
they are as high evidence of long
lineage as the battered table services OF
an English dame who points TO centu.
ries gone for her heraldic progenitor.
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Speaking of Senators who can cook
the New York Sun says: Senator Ed.
munds makes soup that is said to be
unequaled for delicacy, and he can
prepare beef tea that would make q
professional smack his lips, and the
Senator sometimes rccreates mind
worn out with subile,ies by taking oil
his coat, putting on an apron, and pre-
pairing a calfs foot jelly after an old
Vermont recipe. 1t comes forth from
his hand q translucent, quiverlng mass
Of sweet soidity, and his friends
arc in doubt whether he mos
enjoys preparing 1t or eating it,
And again whoever ate trou
that Senator Frye prepared and thcr
wondered why he was up In arm.
on the fisheries question And then
the Senator Is no mean artist In tht
preparation Of fried potatoes, which i
his inevitable side dish with smal
trout prepared as pan fish. Mr.. Frye
can slice the potatoes into pieces OF nc
Cura'ely even thickness, and under hi
skiilfu! hand they leave the frying pa,
the color Of PcnObscot oak leaf Il
October, Mr., Frye conresses to
weakness for potatoes, and he says tha
the potato Is the most abused yegctabl,
by abomlnablc cooking, that we have.
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